This meeting – woolly ideas and mental wellbeing – had a focus on creativity. We looked at some of the ways in which creativity and mental health have been linked: creativity as linked to mental distress; creativity as therapy and means of promoting mental health; creativity as one approach to activism. . . .
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Here are some links that were mentioned at the meeting:
Touched with fire: Kay Redfield Jamieson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Touched-Fire-Manic-depressive-Artistic-Temperament/dp/068483183X
Get Creative – BBC campaign
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/sections/get-creative
Mad Man Knitting
https://madmanknitting.wordpress.com/
Tank covered with Pink knitting
http://www.marianneart.dk/
Wool against weapons
http://www.woolagainstweapons.co.uk/
London Kaye yarn bombs the L train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_KGZaR9dI
Yarncaster – a Lancaster based project
https://yarncaster.wordpress.com/
Learn how to knit
http://www.learn2knit.co.uk/knitting/holding.php
Learn how to crochet
http://www.learn2knit.co.uk/crochet.php
If mental health activism met woolcrafts What could that look like? Ideas?
Knitted items to take into hospital, Looks like one thing, used for something else e.g knitted pot of tablets..actually a container for something else more useful!
Knit/crochet kits… Knit your own recovery/discharge?
Hi Christina
See:
https://cuterthanecoli.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/picture-353.png
Jillx